Description: *Season Three, Episode Seventeen* After a long break for the Jinchuu Special, we return to find our heroine roasting in a spoon under a bridge downtown. Little girls may not be allowed to become pitchers yet but today it's all put to the test when old relationships are rekindled and new relationships are stoped before they can begin. Don't miss the exciting return of Witch Hunter-A.
When Aranha got off the boat he found there was suddenly a significant amount of money in his bank account and while he didn't win the tournament he managed to make a fairly good showing. And to celebrate he decided celebrate by paying for a ticket for his sister Kelly Mason to come to Southtown as well as pay for tickets to the Amusement Park.
Sure it took some doing to get permission to get her permission to get her of school but he made sure that she would get work done he made sure to get the emails of all her teachers to make sure he knew what the assignments were and help her with the assignments as needed. Before she even touched down Aranha proved himself a much more responsible parent than the siblings actual parents.
The two were moving about park riding roller coasters here and there they covered about half of the park and were walking around as they were debating where to go to eat.
Sadly not everyone was so lucky. Some people didn't have bank accounts, or if she had one, she forgot. Needless to say she hadn't gotten off the boat with any great surprise. No it was business as usual. Granted she bailed a little early, around or just after the time some people who shall remain nameless were doing some certain betrayal. But that was neither here nor there. What was important was her scooter, left on the docks while she was on the boat. The scooter was vandalized. Shockingly enough because it was a pretty crappy scooter, but wow it was trashed. So Naerose was totally like needing to get it fixed, but she had literally no money.
Fast forward to today.
"Come one come all, see if you can dunk the witch!" a carnie shouts into a mic while holding up three balls in his other hand.
"Five dollars for three tries, or ten dollars for eight!"
Sitting in the dunk tank. . Looking bored, not especially happy, in her usual outfit... Yes you guessed it. Naerose.
Aranha looked around it was quite a surprise to see the witch at the amusement park and even more of a surprise to see her in the dunk tank. His lips turn upward into a large toothy grin. This was something that presented the ex-cat burglar with an opportunity to get a little revenge for himself. While Aranha didn't know that Naerose had nothing to do with said betrayal, but he knew the witch was associated with the people involved.
Aranha also knew he had to tread carefully while talking about this in public and especially while around his little sister. "Hey, Kelly. Feel like going to the dunk tank? First one to sink her gets to decide where to eat." "Sure Keith," exclaims the younger girl voice filled with enthusiasm. Aranha playfully chides her, "Hey now! Not so loud. I'm known as Aranha here."
The two move to the line and eventually get up near the front. Aranha pulls out a pair of fives and grins maliciously before stepping to the line and getting ready for his first throw.
"Here you are young man and young lady, Four balls each then? It's a very easy game, just hit the yellow circle and the witch goes for a little swim." The carnie stands aside and Naerose, who looks like she is about to fall asleep, mainly because dunk tanks are a total waste of money, and unlike most clowns, she isn't shouting at the passersby and insulting them. She's just looking bored. So not so many people had tried and lets face it, dunk tanks are hard! Those circles are small and they take a good solid hit. . . But then, these people weren't all professional fighters.
The witch looks out when two more people step up and her jaw drops into the water. It takes her a few moments to find it and secure it back to her face.
"Woah woah woah, hold on there a moment, NOT those two, they're going to dunk me for sure! And it's fall and really cold out and and thiis water is raelly cold too and and.. "
"Don't listen to her good man, " The carnie says, "No animals were harmed in the construction of this amusement park and our witches are well paid." He winks.
"Yeah, like minimum wage!" Cries Naerose.
Aranha takes the first dunk tank ball into his hand weighing it for a few moments and studying it and then the distance. Aranha's mind even attempts to take into account wind speed into his calculations. Every factor is treated with the utmost care. And then the ball is released.
One doesn't come out of a martial art where one learns how to move around in a handstand and even learn how to deliver attack from a handstand without building up some arm strength. And it show in how fast and how powerfully the ball is thrown. But while Aranha may be a fighter, accurate throwing isn't exactly his bread and butter and so he misses the target but it's still at a respectable distance away, the canvas barrier giving a loud protest on impact.
After that he steps to the side giving his sister a chance to throw the ball. There's a little less consideration on her part she just glances at the target then whips her arm around to side arm it at the target. It's a bit apparent that she prefers a more 'shoot from the hip' approach than her brother. While it's a little more accurate than Aranha's it doesn't have nearly as much strength behind it.
"Heeey!" Cries the witch as Aranha throws it anyway. Then she is like all relieved and starts to fan her face with her hand and slumps down a little on her bench, looking like.. well that could of sucked.
"Seriously, we go way back, we're like friends and stuff. .And Friends don't dunk friends in cold dunk tanks!" But then his little sister throws and shes relieved and all but is like.. wait.
"Hey hold the phone, isn't she a little young to be dating you?" Of course maybe provoking Aranha isn't such a good idea. The witch seems to regret her words almost as sooon as saying them.
"Wait I mean, whatever floats your boat.. Please please please don't dunk me..." Then she starts a 'prayer'.
"Oh man, my father who is in New Mexico Georgory be thy name, daughter is in a dunk tank, and wishing she wasn't. Aw man." She's pretty sure thats how it goes.
Aranha grabs the next ball and tosses it up and down. "Last time I checked you were just someone looking to leech off of my fighting career." He's careful to leave out mention of the events in Jinchuu. He sees no need to freak his sister out even further. She saw enough news footage to know there were some bad things going on.
He then tosses the ball up and down quietly seething, his mood is made slightly worse by her calling his sister his date. "She is not my date... She's my sister!" To further emphasize the point he throws the ball not at the target but at the tank glass. Numerous cracks spider out from the point of impact of the ball on the glass. As for where the point of impact was, had the glass not been there it could've easily hit her in the head based on the speed.
"AAAH!" Cries the witch as the glass shows cracks all over the in a circular pattern. The witch totally nearly bumps her head trying to avoid getting herself hit by a ball. It's crazy and she nearly breaks her skull opened on the back wall. That sucked.
"Hey, I totally didn't mean it! Sorry, I mean.. Err.." She looks over at the mess going on and she's like no way." She is nearly flipping out here
Aranha's sister knows that look in his eyes and so when he sees Aranha act like that she begins to react in shock and then anger. The normally quiet and shy girl seeing fit to speak up, says "Just who are you, anyway?" Not throwing the ball just yet but clutching the ball and trying to look as intimidating as possible.
It isn't often Kelly gets a chance to protect Aranha. Who is she protecting him from? Himself. Aranha is an intelligent person but when he's emotional like this he tends to use his intelligence stupidly, ie cause an unnecessary scene. "You know what? This one's on me."
She lets the ball go not even bothering to aim it, once again fitting the from the hip, 'concession ball knows the way' styled throwing method sending the ball right for the target.
Aranha smiles. It's that type of thing that he's proud of his sister for. After the witch's comment , he still has to say something. "I wonder if the witch will melt." The tone making it obvious that he switched the w for a b in his mind.
"Aranha is mean!" Cries the witch as she goes straight for the drink with a splash. Though for the record the thrower was actually little Aranha, or Aranha's sister. Does she melt? No, she doesn't melt, she instead whines, and boy does she win. She's totally like.
"Aww! This sucks! " and then she's all drippy and her hat is droopy.
"I'm wet and I don't even get a towel." She whines some more, "I totally didn't do anything to deserve that!" And more, "And it's gonna take like hours of work before I can get my scooter fixed.." And more.
"Why would ya do something so mean." She wants out of the water though and to do that she has to set the bench back up and sit on it. It is only after she is out of the fire and back into the frying pan that she realizes the irony of that.
"Aww dang." And there they are a couple of vindictive meanies with balls.
"Well there was the weird drink you gave me at the fight with Katelynn, the stalking me at various fight venues and the problems I've had with your 'friends.'" He intentionally keeps it vague so atleast the sister doesn't catch his meaning. Of course on the other hand he doesn't have much faith in Naerose's ability to understand what he's saying but he still has to get it off his chest.
"Anyway we still have some balls left," said as he considers the next ball in his hand. While his sister won the competition they had between themselves, he still wants to hear the witch whine some more. "Of course you have done one nice thing for me and that was give me the thumbs down so I should be grateful for that."
Kelly seems to look a bit concerned as their history comes to light but she stays quiet. Perhaps she realizes she can learn more by being silent than speaking.
"Wait!" The witch says, holding up her hands, "Don't throw, cause seriously I dunno what you're talking about. I mean I didn't do anything wrong... Okay, maybe I did .. wait check this.. UUmm."
Naerose starts to sing, fast, like someone sad dance and started unloading revolvers at her feet.
"Umm Something something something Limited, umm and just look at you, can do all I couldn't do.. Glinda.. I mean Aranha.. Somehting something, I've heard it said, that people come into our fries for a reason.. something something ketchuup.. " She speaks between sung words holding up her hands,
"Jus gimme a moment I'm gonna get to the good part." She continues . . .
Aranha seems to get some type of sadistic glee from watching the witch go into song sans dance as if she had a gun to her head. A lot could be said for the use of more psychological methods to get what one wants. Even the people standing in line are getting more entertainment from the witch's predicament than they thought they'd get based on the earlier ones.
As for Kelly she doesn't know whether to laugh or to be confused. Unfortunately confusion seems to win out as she stares at the witch in complete disbelief.
"Yeah getting to the good part would be wise."
Aranha's arm winds back as he gets ready to throw his third ball. Looking as as evil as possible. He wants the witch to squirm. He wants to make her as uncomfortable as possible because even if he doesn't find out much, he'll atleast make sure the witch thinks twice about approach if they see each other again.
The witch shifts her black shades to the ball and gulps then totally holds up her finger to indicate she's almost there, she has to stop a bit and hum for a moment while she tries to remember how the song goes.
"And umm whatever way our dinner ends, I know you will of paid for mine for being my friiiieeeennd" She holds that note, totally out of key, for whatever key she was trying to sing, you just know it was flat.
"I've beeen fed for good, " sung, then spoken, "Here's the good part, " She breaks back into the song,
"And just to clear the air, I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blaaame me for..." She looks over at Aranha with a totally expectant look and says, "Okay, now you sing, "But then I guess we know there's blame to share, then we got this great duet of 'And none of it seems to matter anymore'." It'll be great, so your part! She points at Aranha with a biiig grin as though her song was entrancing and she was totally not going to get dunked again.
The review?
Aranha doesn't sing. As a matter of fact he's stone silent as she finishes the song and even a few moments after. This silence is important because it creates tension. It allows the witch to twist in the air and it keeps the crowd waiting breathlessly as they await his response.
And then Aranha finally responds, "Sorry. We're still not dancing to the same song." Apparently it's Aranha's turn to give her the thumbs down. Aranha whips his arm around sending the ball towards the target still flying at high speeds and it....
Naerose is still grinning and even about to go back into singing when she's totally like kersplash.
When she comes out she's almost like a wet cat. This time she's not grinning, shes pouting. Of course once again she could jjust realize seating back on the bench means she gets sent back into the water. So the vicious cycle will probably continue. Still she resets the bench to get out of the water and struggles getting her broom out of the way.
"Heey seriously Aranha, I'm totally trying to reach out to you. Why would ya dump me in a pool of water when I'm reaching out to you? It's all wrong! Come on your sister wants to be my friend right?" She looks over at Kelly and flashes her a biiiig smile. Meanwhile she reaches into her hat to pull something to dry herself off with, unfortunately the hat is full of water and just rewets her followed by the witch going ' awwwww'
Kelly's shaking her head in stunned silence as the witch continues to pout and Aranha continues to give the witch intimidating stares she knows Aranha's wrath is usually not illogical so she knows he has some reason for wanting to put the witch through this mostly psychological torture. Kelly looks at the witch then at her older brother. "I need to think about it." She spends some time holding the ball and deliberating.
Aranha on the other hand has no problem responding whatsoever. "Reaching out huh? Well then... I got a song for ya... Don't give me no lines and keep your hands to yourself." He flings his forth and final ball at target and this time he misses again. "After what your friends did to me, you're lucky I just want to dunk you." With that he begins to walk away from the line who is quickly followed by his sister leaving behind two unthrown balls of her own.
"Don't feed me no pies and keep your hands to yourself? Hey Aranha.." She shouts after him, "Go talk to Arika.. She'll tell you that I'm totally all good now, Really! I'm all.. He's gone." The witch sits back on her bench and looks dejected, but at least they're not dunking.. Then everyone else in the line shows up, all of them with balls. Aparently they are all hopeing to get the same sort of thing, badly song songs and pleading and whining and a real personal thing. But there was no point in trying because the witch is more like,
"Oh come on, nooooo way!" she cries.
Log created on 14:11:31 11/05/2007 by Naerose, and last modified on 10:04:55 11/06/2007.